Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice Celebration
New England Tour
Seven-time Grammy®-winning saxophonist Paul Winter, with the Paul Winter Consort, will bring their legendary Winter Solstice Celebration across New England this December, with performances in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut.
For decades, the Paul Winter Consort presented their Winter Solstice Celebration in the world’s largest Cathedral, New York’s St. John the Divine, where it was beloved as New York’s holiday alternative to The Nutcracker and Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular. Since covid, the event has not taken place in New York, and the Consort is now bringing it to the finest acoustic halls in New England in a ten-venue tour.
The Consort includes Paul Winter, soprano sax; Eugene Friesen, cello; Brazilian pianist Henrique Eisenmann; Bulgarian bassist Peter Slavov; Brazilian drummer Rogerio Boccato; and the beloved voice of Theresa Thomason. The Consort will be joined by singer Noel Paul Stookey in Orono, Maine, and organist Tim Brumfield in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Winter Solstice Celebration is a contemporary take on ancient solstice rituals, when people felt a calling to come together on the longest night of the year, to welcome the return of the Sun and birth of the new year.
“Central to all the traditions of solstice is the renewal of spirit,” Paul notes, “symbolized by the rebirth of the sun. Winter solstice is a time for healing and hope; it is a time to celebrate community and relatedness; and a time to honor the diversity and the unity of the great cornucopia of life on Earth. Remembering the solstice, we resonate once again with the rhythm of the cosmos and allow our hearts to embrace the optimism of our ancient knowledge that the light will overcome the darkness.”
Purchase tickets using the hyperlinks below.
December 13 | 7pm | Hannaford Hall, Portland, Maine>>
December 15 | 3pm | Rockport Opera House, Rockport, Maine>>
December 16 | 7pm | Lebanon Opera House, Lebanon, New Hampshire>>
December 17 | 7:30pm | The Flynn, Burlington, VT>>
December 19 | 7pm | Woolsey Hall, New Haven, Connecticut | with organist Tim Brumfield>>
December 21 | 7pm | St. James Place, Great Barrington, Massachusetts>>
December 22 | 3pm | Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts>>
December 27 | Troy Music Hall, Troy, New York>>
December 28 | 3pm & 7pm | Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity, Northampton, Massachusetts>>